GIOVANNI PIETRO RIZZOLI, CALLED IL GIAMPIETRINO (ACTIVE MILAN C.1495-1540)

Lot 27
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Lot 27 | GIOVANNI PIETRO RIZZOLI, CALLED IL GIAMPIETRINO (ACTIVE MILAN C.1495-1540)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
GIOVANNI PIETRO RIZZOLI, CALLED IL GIAMPIETRINO (ACTIVE MILAN C.1495-1540)
The Madonna and Child seated with Saint Jerome and the Archangel Michael
oil on panel
22 ¾ x 26 in. (57.8 x 66 cm.)
with the red wax armorial seal of a prelate of the Ricci family (on the reverse of the panel, twice)




Provenance

(Probably) Bishop Francesco Ricci (1679-1755), subsequently cardinal (according to a seal on the reverse).
Stated to have been presented by Signora Bica to Pope Clement XI (Giovanni Franceso Albani, 1649-1721, elected 1700).
His nephew, Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), by whom sold in 1726-7 as part of a larger group of pictures, in Rome, for 400 Roman crowns to,
Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (1707-1746), and by descent at Badminton to his brother,
Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (1709-1756) and by descent at Badminton to his great-great-grandson,
Henry Charles Fitzroy, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899), by whom sold anonymously; Christie's, London, 18 July 1895, lot 73, as 'L. da Vinci', 240 gns. to the following,
Harry Quilter (1851-1907), London; Christie's, London, 7 April 1906, lot 95, as L. da Vinci, 210 gns. to the following,
Henrik Loeffler, and by descent to the seller at the following,
Christie's, London, through whom acquired by private treaty, 8 August 2011.



Literature

O. Sitwell, 'The Red Folder-I', The Burlington Magazine, 80, 1942, p. 87.
J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 68.
C. Quattrini, 'Giampietrino e l'eredità di Francesco Galli, orafo', Artes. Periodico annuale di storia dell'arte, XV, 2010-2015, pp. 69-71, fig. 2, note 33.
C. Geddo, 'Leonardeschi tra Lombardia ed Europa: i ‘Giampietrino’ della Mitteleuropa', Lombardia ed Europa Incroci di Storia e Cultura, D. Zardin ed., Milan, 2014, p. 99.
C. Quattrini, 'RIZZOLI, Giovanni Pietro, detto Giampietrino o Gianpietrino', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, LXXXVII, 2016, p. 750.
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